Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 620
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started on the Poetic Asides blog. This week, write a “Noun of Place” poem.
For this week's prompt, take the phrase "(noun) of (place)," replace the noun with a noun, replace the place with a place, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: "Dog of Neptune," "Sherlock Holmes of London," and/or "Red Crayon of Elementary School."
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a "Noun of Place" Poem:
“poet of central park,” by Robert Lee Brewer
maybe most people who visit manhattan
find themselves swept up in the hustle
of the lower fifty-eight streets packed full
with skyscrapers and commerce but for me
the real fun starts when i cross fifty-ninth
into central park (also filled with the music
of people living their lives and running
across the pleasures of playgrounds and
boulders and ball fields and paths that
twist and turn from the zoo to the met
to the reservoir and the great hill and
the great lawn and on and on) because
it's the place where i see the poetry of
great towers and airplanes juxtaposed
against the leaves and branches of the
natural world and i take a deep breath
for what feels like a new york minute
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
